Emperor Lothair I or Lothar I, 795-855. Wearing a distinctive crown, chlamys or mantle, tunic, laced boots, holding a sceptre. Seated on a purple throne with his squires holding his sword, lance and buckler. L'Empereur Lothaire, France, IXe siecle. Taken from the Gospels of Lothair, 9th century, MS 256, Bibliotheque Imperiale. Chromolithograph by Mathieu after an illustration by Gsell from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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